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The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours (www.stereogum.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to that and you want to make it a special night, you’re talking $500 to $1,000 a night for a couple to go out. It’s capitalism at its best.”

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Our owner class truly believes they can sustain an economy made up of and powered by the 90% almost exclusively for the top 10%.

Almost makes me glad they're also recklessly ending the world (for humans and other not so physically resilient/hearty species, not all life thankfully) in pursuit of even moooaaaar short term growth/metastasis cash crabs. I'd prefer nature go back to the drawing board to having a few humans exploit the value out of most humans very lives in perpetuity.

That ongoing reality makes me ashamed to call myself human, not proud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Do you believe you’d be happier or more able to pursue what makes you happy as a hunter-gatherer, subsistence farmer, or citizen of any society from the stone age up until the advent of modern industrialization?